Who Is Amanda Staveley And Is She Buying Spurs?

British business executive Amanda Staveley has been linked pinch a bid to bargain Tottenham Hotspur - though nan nine person publically denied that they are up for sale.

One of her astir noble business moves has been helping to lead nan Saudi Public Investment Fund's takeover of Newcastle United successful 2021.

Staveley was a 10% shareholder of Newcastle pursuing nan takeover and held a number stock successful nan club, alongside hubby Mehrdad Ghodoussi, until nan duo departed successful July 2024.

At nan clip of Staveley and Ghodoussi's departure and waste of their shares, nan brace held a liking of conscionable 6% of nan club.

On Sunday, Spurs' committee released a connection to opportunity they had "received and unequivocally rejected" approaches from 2 parties, 1 of which being Staveley's PCP International Finance Limited.

On Monday, PCP said that it did not intend to acquisition Tottenham.

Prior to her engagement successful Newcastle, Staveley was progressive successful an finance successful Barclays slope successful 2008 and besides worked arsenic portion of Sheikh Mansour's takeover of Manchester City successful nan aforesaid year.

Amanda Staveley has been searching for "great opportunities" since leaving Newcastle past summer.

She intelligibly felt that Spurs fitted specified a explanation – moreover earlier president Daniel Levy's departure - fixed nan club's stature, imaginable and state-of-the-art infrastructure.

Spurs person besides been thing of an outlier arsenic a awesome Premier League nine who person not changed hands successful nan past decade-and-a-half.

But ENIC are adamant that will proceed to beryllium nan lawsuit aft Staveley showed a "preliminary look of interest".

It is worthy noting that Staveley does not thin to springiness up.

For context, she spent nan champion portion of 4 years attempting to agent a woody for Newcastle and nan consortium moreover returned to nan array aft announcing that they had pulled retired astatine 1 stage.

But, moreover if it is not to beryllium Spurs, this liking highlights nan desire of Staveley and hubby Mehrdad Ghodoussi to get backmost into shot astatine nan very highest level pursuing their spell astatine Newcastle.

Staveley said of Newcastle 1 time challenging for titles and nan Champions League conscionable hours aft taking complete nan day-to-day moving of a stripped-back nine successful heavy relegation problem successful 2021.

She went connected to play an important domiciled successful Newcastle's resurgence and was heavy progressive successful nan assignment of Eddie Howe arsenic caput coach, pursuing a grounded effort to bring successful Unai Emery, arsenic good arsenic nan negotiations to bring successful respective cardinal players, including Bruno Guimaraes, Anthony Gordon and Tino Livramento.

Staveley and Ghodoussi's departures truthful came arsenic a daze past summertime pursuing a alteration successful ownership structure, which led to Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and nan Reuben Family purchasing their shares.

The brace stay Newcastle fans – and were astatine Wembley to witnesser nan Carabao Cup last backmost successful March – but they are intelligibly wished to return to nan frontline.

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